Tradition is the unwritten body of beliefs and customs inherited from generation to generation that individuals must follow. Being modern is to adopt new tendencies whereby individuals follow a new trend or style. In the face of a fundamental...

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is a graphic novel that tells her own coming of age story in Iran during a period of turmoil. Similar to Iran’s ever-changing period of political upheaval, Marji’s character development is marked by conflict. In fact,...

As a coming-of-age story, Persepolis highlights the many victories and hardships that come with growing up during a time of conflict. Satrapi integrates diverse characters in her novel to shed light on how different social groups endured during...

In the novels <i>Arabesques</i> by Anton Shammas and <i>Persepolis</i> by Marjane Satrapi, autobiographical narrative is created through the use of unconventional styles of writing. Shammas’s use of the novel as the...

The late Ed Koch once said that “stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.” In Marjane...

Persepolis is a bildungsroman that tells the story of Marji, a young Iranian girl growing up during a time of revolution, turmoil, and war. Her path of growth and development changes direction at a single moment, and she begins to grow up into a...

In Satrapi’s graphic memoir Persepolis: A Story of a Childhood, there is a constant theme of exploitation of heroic concepts to legitimize political movements. The dissenters of the Shah used martyrdom, even exploiting a man who had died of...

In Persepolis, a graphic novel memoir, Marjane Satrapi depicts a chilling picture of what life was like growing up in Iran during times of upheaval. She describes many disturbing things, such as bombings in her neighborhood and rallies against the...

For some, religion is just another part of their daily routine. For others, it’s a way of life. In Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Marjane finds herself able to express herself in the eyes of God. Within these conversations, Marjane sees the cracks...

In the graphic memoir Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi discloses her experiences as a young girl growing up under the oppressive regime of the Iranian revolution. Throughout the novel, she faces moral dilemmas, suffers culture shock, and struggles to...

The autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis follows the journey of Marjane Satrapi’s life as she experiences the dangers of the Iran war. Satrapi’s narrative provides a personal look into life during the Iran war, following her throughout not...

In the two texts, the notion of family is greatly influenced by an external factor, which is the political party in control of the population. In Persepolis, this would be the Iranian government in power during the post Cultural Revolution, while...

The roles of women in Middle Eastern culture have varied throughout the decades, ranging from being delicate creatures in need of protection to becoming blind soldiers suddenly dedicated to a misleading cause. This is most noticeably depicted in...

Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian author and illustrator who grew up in Tehran in a middle-class family. Both of her parents were political activists and supported a Marxist ideology in contrary to the beliefs of the monarchy of the last Shah....

The Complete Persepolis, an autobiographical novel by Marjane Satrapi, tells the tale of Marjane’s childhood in Iran. In this story, Marjane (Marji) is brought up by communistic parents. Evidence of this Marxist upbringing is displayed several...

The graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a bildungsroman, a novel that deals with the coming-of-age of the protagonist which happens to be the author herself. Marjane develops from an ignorant child to a mature adult as she struggles...

Throughout the book, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood the author; Marjane Satrapi illustrates through her autobiographical graphic novel about the Iranian Revolution and her perspective of the events that occurred her early ages from when she...

The Shah's replacement by the Islamic Republic in 1979 was a difficult time for all the Iranians especially Marjane’s parents. This new regime rejected all the “Western values” and focused instead on Islamic fundamentalism. Many Iranians were...

Classic literature often portrays struggles of identity, where the main character is caught between two sides of an ongoing ideological struggle, and begins to question who they are, because they’re not entirely sure to which group they should,...

The novels “The Things They Carried” by O’Brien and “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi uses the narrative, with a war context, to invite the reader to identify with scenarios, characters and ideas. Marjane Satrapi denounces the Iranian War with...

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis offers the reader an intimate, sober view of the author’s early life around the time of the Iranian revolution of 1979. Her family is middle class, educated and fairly progressive. The young Marji wears Nike shoes,...

In the graphic novel “Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood”, written by Marjane Satrapi, Satrapi tells her story of her transition from childhood, through adolescence into adulthood. Through Satrapi’s personal story, she is able to educate the...

Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian author and illustrator who grew up in Tehran in a middle-class family. Both of her parents were political activists and supported a Marxist ideology in contrary to the beliefs of the monarchy of the last Shah....

There are two different types of captivity: being captive to an outside force or being captive to yourself. When most people think of captivity, they think of an outside force, someone restricting someone else through overt force. Yet the other...